Harness attachment



(No Model.)

' P. D. DERICKX'.

. d HARNESS ATTACHMENT.

No. 369,322. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

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ATENT OFFICE.

PAUL D. DERIGKX, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

HARNESS ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,322, dated September 6, 1887. I Application filed November 12, 1886. Serial No. 218,722. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PAUL D. DERICKX, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harnesses, of which the'following is a specification.

Heretofore the cruppers in harnesses have been made loop-shaped, as shown in the drawings in Figure 4, to fasten under and partly around theanimalstail,t0 prevent the animals head-check from drawingthe saddle out of its When, therefore, the animal lifts his head or tail, it causes the crapper to slacken, and a contrary movement of the head causes the crupper to rub on the animals tail.

The tail by swinging will also rub on the crapper, thus causing soreness on the animals tail; and the object of my invention is to provide harnesses with a crupper thatwill not make the animals tail sore. I attain this object by the .system illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a detailed view of the crapper in combination with the harness as it appears when in use on the animal; Fig. 2, a sectional view of the crapper with its buckles and eX- tensions; Fig. 3, a detafled view of the buckle, and Fig. 4 a view of common form of crupper.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

In the drawings, A is the crapper, having apertures L for its adjustment; 13, its fastening-buckle, having a pin, K, and notch J to hold said pin, and having a bar, M, for the connection of the said crupper and pin, and

having also bars 0 O, as shown in Fig. 3, to

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, L

1. A crupper consisting of the strap to en: circle the root of the tail, and provided with the buckle, and means, substantially as described, to connect the bucklewith the harness.

2. .In a harness, the crapper-buckle B, having the slots on the side bar for the connectingstraps, and the notch J, all substantially as set forth.

3. The crupper A, provided with the slotted buckle B, in combination with the straps D D and the back-strap E, all substantially as described.

PAUL D. DERIOKX.

Witnesses: I

JOHN A. BURGER, 'FRANK X. LINGEMANN. 

